"Every year, the fur industry is responsible for the miserable lives and painful deaths of nearly 40 million animals. Many are suffocated, drowned, or beaten in the wild; however, others are gassed or electrocuted to death on fur farms. These animals endure unspeakable cruelty (fur statistics)." To kill the animals for the fur to keep ourselves warm is wrong. There are many alternative ways to keep us warm. It does not necessarily mean that we have to wear animal skin to keep ourselves warm.
             The way these animals are killed for their skin is a gruesome site for anyone. There are many techniques to acquire furs. Some of the ways are by electrocute, gassed, leghold trap, wire snare, conibear body gripping trap (crushes the animal) and many other. "Two out of three are the innocent animals that are not the targets of the fur are killed in order to get the other furbearing animals (McCann)."
             There are various types of animals that are targeted by the furbearing farmers and hunters. "The most common animals that are targeted are chinchillas, foxes, minks, coyotes, raccoons, and many others. These are the main animals that are farm for fur. The treatment these animals get while they are being farms for fur is not a good site. The methods used on fur farms are designed to maximize profit, always at the expense of the animal's welfare and comfort. All these animals live only a fraction of their natural life spans. The animal's short lives are filled with fear, stress, diseases, parasites, other physical and psychological hardships (fur statistics)."
             "Some of these animals are kept in cages that are only 2.5 feet square, with one to four animals per cage. The extreme crowding and confinement are dangerous for the animals. Over crowding the animals might cause self-mutilating behaviors, including pelt, tail biting and abnormalities. They can have contagious diseases such as Aleutian diseases, viral enteritis and pneu
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